Ballard and McCall 4: Colter's Quest

When Chet Ballard visits an old friend, Ben Colter, in New Mexico, he finds Colter’s ranch burned to the ground, Ben and his wife Rachel missing, and the Apache who worked for Colter badly wounded. It turns out that whoever hit the ranch did so in order to kidnap Rachel. But why?
While McCall goes in search of Colter, Ballard finds his own trail being dogged by vicious bounty hunters and an Apache on a blood hunt.
Along the way Colter begins to understand why his wife has been taken. It also ...